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5.
The goal of any information
design is to communicate a
specific message to the end
user in a way that is clear,
accessible, and easy to
understand.
THE INFORMATION DESIGN HANDBOOK, JENN + KEN VISOCKY O’GRADY

26.
WIDOWS & ORPHANS
widow my husband died :[
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found thought, their mouths probably seize up.
hardest to understand about humans was their habit of
continually stating and repeating the very very obvious, After a few months' consideration and observation
as in It's a nice day, or You're very tall, or Oh dear you he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If
seem to have fallen down a thirty-foot well, are you they don't keep on exercising their lips, he thought,
alright? At ﬁrst Ford had formed a theory to account their brains start working. After a while he
for this strange behaviour. for this strange behaviour. abandoned this one as well as being obstructively
If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he cynical.
orphan
i have a horrible red afro and no parents :[

27.
PROOF DESIGNERS ARE SADISTS
A common mnemonic is
An orphan has no past; a widow has no future
or
An orphan is left behind, where as a widow
must go on alone
VIA WIKIPEDIA (I CAN’T MAKE THIS SHIT UP)